Utah Suicide and Vital Stats

“About one per day” is how a reporter for the Deseret News summed up suicide in Utah a few years ago.

My investigation about this subject over the years has my main question left unanswered; “why”. Why does Utah have a higher than average suicide rate compared to the rest of the nation if this is Zion?

If the majority of the population in Utah is LDS shouldn’t their vital stats reflect the fruit of this “one true church” that pumps the message their goal is to be happy?

Sadly we’ve discovered the fruits of Mormonism are nothing but.

You can find stats in our reports from the Utah Dept of Health, the FBI, CDC, and even Utah Dept of Education below.

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3 Responses to “Utah Suicide and Vital Stats”

And you are going to just leave it at that: It is because of the Mormon Church, and that’s that, simply because you said so?

This may or may not be true. But you have made absolutely no effort beyond your simple–probably biased–assertion.

This is like saying that because the rooster crows every morning before the sun comes up it is certain that the rooter itself is what caused the sun to rise in the morning.

Just because two things are correlated does not automatically mean there is a causal link between them. Unless you look at the demographics and actual reasons behind these suicides, you really can support an assertion like this.

“Mormon” Utah is actually getting pretty watered down by sometime outsiders moving into the area. In many areas in Utah, Mormon’s are not even a majority anymore, and for all you know, it could be these sometime outsiders who are committing suicide rather than the Mormons.

I would be curious to know if the suicide statistics are actually higher among the LDS population in general–both inside and outside of Utah.

In may turn out that LDS folks are in fact more likely to commit suicide, but your simple assertion certainly does nothing to shed any real light on this notion.

Why am I not surprised that there is no follow up to my previous comment?

I have no interest in promoting either conclusion here. (Mormonism leads to suicide or something else is to blame.) But groups like yours quickly lose credibility when you so comfortably accept any unsubstantiated notion that dovetails well with your own religious prejudices. It’s clear that you have an axe to grind and couldn’t care less about real facts or actual truth.

What you are doing here is turning honesty on its head and instead of taking an objective approach to answering these questions by starting with a theory or premise and then objectively looking at the facts to see if they validate your premise, you take the opposite approach and work backwards.

That is, you start with a foregone conclusion and work backwards towards your premise, filling in the blanks by automatically latching onto anything that would put the Mormon Church in a bad light–whether it is true or not–and dismissing out of hand anything that might cast the Mormon Church in a positive light–again, even if the positive facts are true.

There is a word in the English language to describe your thought process and behavior here, and there is actually a Biblical origin to this word: sophistry (Your entire website is filled with this kind of self-serving dishonesty.)

So, let me ask you this: Is it actually possible to lead people to Christ and ultimately to the truth through either careless (you don’t really care about the facts) or intentional deception? I personally doubt that you can. My take on this is that if you are at all successful, you are simply leading people from one form of religious darkness into another. And who are you actually benefiting in the process?

Since you have clearly demonstrated your willingness to consistently do so through the various willfully ignorant or intentionally dishonest claims on this website, how are you any better than the “deceptive” Mormons? You are just the other side of the same coin: another false religion that has to resort to deception to gain acceptance.